Hail Fatalities Cancel Hunting Season in Austria

[Mike Krzywonski]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/6377192/Hunting-banned-in-parts-of-Austria-after-hailstones-kill-90pc-of-wild-game.html

 

[Richard Dickson]

Interesting article. I always feel sorry for the cattle caught out in a hailstorm. Not a thing they can do but turn away from it and take the pain which makes for some badly bruised steaks if they are lucky.

Like everyone else, I've watched some of the storm chasing DVDs where a "brave" (or insert your own descriptive term here) chaser gets out of the car while the windows are breaking and wearing a football helmet to pick up a few of the big stones. Not for me! During one hailstorm when I lived in Kansas, we had about a dozen stones wind up in the front room after breaking through a two-layered, double pane picture window and smashing the top of our stereo. Insurance agent never batted an eye because he lived next door and lost a number of items besides the roof. No thanks, don't like to play outdoors in the hail.

 

[Wes Carter]

I wonder if the hail had an effect on the feral cat, feral hog, or fox populations. From what I understand these invasive species have done a lot of harm to the Outback. Maybe this will be their opportunity to get those populations in check.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Interesting article. I always feel sorry for the cattle caught out in a hailstorm. Not a thing they can do but turn away from it and take the pain which makes for some badly bruised steaks if they are lucky.

Like everyone else, I've watched some of the storm chasing DVDs where a "brave" (or insert your own descriptive term here) chaser gets out of the car while the windows are breaking and wearing a football helmet to pick up a few of the big stones. Not for me! During one hailstorm when I lived in Kansas, we had about a dozen stones wind up in the front room after breaking through a two-layered, double pane picture window and smashing the top of our stereo. Insurance agent never batted an eye because he lived next door and lost a number of items besides the roof. No thanks, don't like to play outdoors in the hail.

If I remember right in the Stormsof2006 Charity DVD, in one chapter it is raining baseball sized hail and Tony Lubuach gets out of his vehicle with no helmet and picks up some of the hail. He then had one of his windows destroyed by the hail. Talk about being brave.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

I wonder if the hail had an effect on the feral cat, feral hog, or fox populations. From what I understand these invasive species have done a lot of harm to the Outback. Maybe this will be their opportunity to get those populations in check.

I think you have Austria and Australian mixed up.

 

[Wes Carter]

I think you have Austria and Australian mixed up.

Wow. There's nothing like making a dumba** out of one's self, and doing it on a forum to be archived forever. Well, at least this one didn't cost me any money.

I'm still trying to come up with a good excuse...